Author Archives: Joel

Via Codrea, the latest and greatest on Daniel Harless, TUAK’s Law Enforcement Poster Boy of the Month. That other videos are surfacing isn’t a big surprise. Officer “Shoot you in the [bleeping] face and sleep at night” didn’t pull that … Continue reading →

From the “really obvious questions that people ask anyway” Department… NSA Lawyer Questioned Over Cellphone Location Tracking of Americans: Is the government using cellular data to track Americans as they move around the U.S.? Seems like an answer to that … Continue reading →

Guffaw posted a nostalgic look at model rockets this morning, that got me to thinking of ze gut old dayz. Like him, I was into the little black powder-powered cardboard-and-balsa rockets when I was a kid. Much later I discovered … Continue reading →

“This just can’t be happening to me.” As Kevin Wilmeth correctly points out, ‘Yes it can, Bunky.’ Those are the words of someone in Condition White. … They were not prepared for this emergency, mentally: “[t]his just can’t be happening … Continue reading →

Canton, Ohio. Never been there, but it does appear that sanity is not a requirement for a job in “public service” in Canton. H/T to Snarkybytes. In fact, it sounds as though Canton could use a Hero!

My friend Ian likes guns. Okay – you like guns. I like guns. All God’s chilluns like guns. You don’t understand – Ian REALLY likes guns. Ian’s father is a veritable published scholar of certain types of military small arms, … Continue reading →

I had a phone call from GC Guy yesterday evening, setting the whole schedule back a day. So instead of geiger counters, this became shit-shoveling day. Finished up with what looked like plenty of time in the sky, but it … Continue reading →

Looks like that’s what these cops have in mind… John Doe, as they have been forced to call him, was arrested for trespassing after he was spotted hanging around the parking garage of the Provo City offices, looking into cars. … Continue reading →

In other words, now that we know the alleged perpetrator is not Muslim, we know — by definition — that Terrorists are not responsible; conversely, when we thought Muslims were responsible, that meant — also by definition — that it … Continue reading →

Yeah, sorry: I got nothing today. Couldn’t get to sleep last night. Usually in high summer we get a breeze or a shower to cool things down before dark, but when we don’t the ol’ box’o’tin isn’t a great place … Continue reading →

Yike. Closer to six hundred bucks than to five, and I still forgot the drawer slides. Also, I really hope I didn’t lose too many of those shelf supports hanging out the rear there. But that’s my kitchen, not counting … Continue reading →

Don’t get me wrong, I understand the vital importance of coffee. Coffee is very important – why, human society couldn’t exist without it, because without it half of us would slaughter the other half before breakfast. Still…perhaps, after all, the … Continue reading →

Something nice happened this morning. I fell victim to a dirty trick, which got my worrying-dad muscles all in an uproar as I genuinely thought my one-and-only daughter was stuck penniless in a very foreign country. What the hell she … Continue reading →

I heard it on the Jeep’s radio while running some post-GC chores, and couldn’t believe what I thought I was hearing. So I came home and looked it up. Yup, I heard correctly… In an unusual display of emotion, President … Continue reading →

See a cop aiming his smartphone at you, you might want to blink your eyes real fast or something…

Airport body scanners to nix naked image Uh huh. This time it isn’t a lie… WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New software for screening travelers at U.S. airports will do away with naked images, addressing a major public concern, the Transportation Security … Continue reading →

Fired up the computer to read an alarming email from daughter, apparently one she sent to a group. She went to Spain (SPAIN???) for a short vacation, got mugged, lost all her funds, and is trapped in a hotel unable … Continue reading →

Spent most of the day making geiger counters, and GC Guy says when we run out of GM tubes there’ll be at least a two-week shutdown while we wait for more. That will free up time for working on the … Continue reading →

H/T to Wendy McElroy.

Look, I firmly believe that the impending incandescent lightbulb ban is corrupt, presumptuous, stupid and wrong-headed an act of government, okay? I’m on board as opposing it. Really. (eventhoughIonlyuseCFLs…) But there are so very many GOOD reasons to oppose the … Continue reading →